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Rapid loss of Battery Life and hot handset

In the last week my 3G has suffered a significant loss of battery life in short time periods, from being fully charged to zero within 4hrs or less.

I thought I was the only one with this issue, but I started asking questions in the office and many of my colleagues are experiencing the same problem over the last week. In total 7 of them with either 3G or 3GS are having the same issues of reduced battery life and hot handsets when charging.

Accompanying this battery issue we are all suffering from poor connection, calls going straight to answer phone and the voice mail notification being received about 3 to 4 hrs after the message has been left.

The strangest of all is that these problems have all developed to all of our iphones roughly at the same time, very strange.

We've tried rebooting, switching off wifi, nothing seems to be working. Does anybody have any ideas or advice?

HP, iOS 4

Posted on Mar 2, 2011 1:33 AM

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Posted on Mar 2, 2011 2:43 AM

Do you and all of your colleagues have 3G turned on in settings? I ask, because in low 3G signal areas the iPhone will continually try and maintain the 3G connection. This will burn through battery. Since this is happening to everyone, I'd start looking at a tower/signal problem. Try turning 3G off in settings.
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Mar 2, 2011 2:43 AM in response to Frosty12345

Do you and all of your colleagues have 3G turned on in settings? I ask, because in low 3G signal areas the iPhone will continually try and maintain the 3G connection. This will burn through battery. Since this is happening to everyone, I'd start looking at a tower/signal problem. Try turning 3G off in settings.

Mar 28, 2011 12:37 AM in response to Frosty12345

As per my previous message. My colleagues and I had an issue with the battery life with our iPhone 3G and 3GS. At the beginning of March we all suffered from rapid battery life loss and associated with this the handset were getting quite hot. After a few days it almost rectifed itself with everyones phone at the same time. Now it has happened again, returning to work this morning it would appear that over the weekend we have all suffered from the same rapid loss of battery life. This cannot be coincidental! Has ayone else noticed this recurring battery life problem?

Mar 31, 2011 12:24 PM in response to Frosty12345

I'm getting the same issue. I tried a restore, power cycling, resetting, nothing works. The only intensive thing I do on it is an hour of music playing in the morning. I've never had an hour or more dramatically reduce the power level. Is there some sort of fix for this. I heard that apps that are incorrectly programmed can run in the background even after you've closed them. Is there a way to see if this is occuring??

Rapid loss of Battery Life and hot handset

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